Imagination and Rehearsal

Imagination and rehearsal techniques are never named explicitly in the living love
literature, even though they are used extensively in workshops.

You imagine what life would be like without an addiction. If you can’t imagine
yourself in that state, imagine someone else, e.g. a laid-back friend, Ken Keyes, Gandhi,
the Buddha… in a situation you have trouble with. Then rehearse in your mind, or
in a skit how that change in consciousness might change your behaviours.

This helps provide motivation for getting rid of an addiction. It also lets you
fake it before you make it, changing and rehearsing
behaviours in your real life before you have fully reprogrammed the addiction. As Tony
Robbins points out, action creates motivation.